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"We are clearly moving towards turning water into an ordinary commodity with everything that this entails: discrimination on the basis of income with regard to water access instead of universal access, the intensive use of sources with the risk of them running out, the intensive use of the infrastructure in the event of distribution being privatised, and a lack of investment. The consequences of climate change can only be managed jointly and only at state level. Its impact extends beyond borders, thereby making international cooperation a necessity.
The zones at greatest risk in this area are those which are the most unstable, hit by conflict, both between states and within states. Pollution is another problem which, likewise, must be managed jointly by several states. Cooperation in this area is not working as well yet as we would like. There is also the aspect relating to investments in research and development aimed at obtaining new wastewater recycling technologies or optimising the consumption of water in agriculture, not to mention making affordable, in economic terms, the desalination of seawater. We must not believe that these issues will be resolved more easily by leaving them up to the markets and removing states from the equation. The financial system crisis shows us how wrong this kind of approach is."@en1
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